POxy 658

POxy 658 (or P. Oxy. IV 658) is one of four examples of "libelli" found at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt. The last lines of the manuscript declare the date — the first year of the emperor Decius, whose full name was Gaius Messius Quintus Traianus Decius. We know the first year of his reign was 250 AD.

Text

*Original lines are retained (and numbered).
*Text in [brackets| [brackets] is reconstructed to fill a gap (lacuna) in the papyrus.
*Full stops in brackets represent character spaces that cannot be reconstructed.
*Text in (parentheses) is full spelling of an abbreviation.
*Letters with _subscript dots are incomplete or indistinct.

ee also

*Lapsi (Christian)
*Oxyrhynchus papyri
*Other libelli: POxy 1464, POxy 2990, POxy 3929
*Warrant to arrest a Christian: POxy 3035

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